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Friday, October 09, 2015

Ranger School: Everything in the Obama administration is make-believe and subordinated to the agenda—even truth

Something about the story of the first two women ever to graduate from the Army’s prestigious Ranger course seemed hokey

notes Benny Huang, one army veteran who is always suspicious of “firsts.”

Our society is so fixated on them that it creates an incentive to fudge facts and lower standards.

Liberals will of course contest my assertion, though these are the
same people who don’t really object to lowering standards in academia to
get more minorities in the door, lowering them again to get them to
graduate, then lowering them a third time to hire them as faculty
members. Liberals don’t really oppose lowering the bar in order to
create “firsts.” They just don’t like to call it “lowering the bar”
because that tarnishes the accomplishment. As it should.

General Martin Dempsey, former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff,
revealed his doublethink in 2013 when announcing long-term plans to
open combat positions to women. In the vey same press conference in
which he stated that women would be allowed the opportunity to prove
themselves under the same standards as the men, he also stated, “If we
do decide that a particular standard is so high that a woman couldn’t
make it, the burden is now on the service to come back and explain to
the secretary, why is it that high? Does it really have to be that
high?”

So the standard will remain the same…unless women can’t reach it.
Then elite units will have to justify their standards to the service
secretaries, who will probably not be swayed. So why even debate with
the service secretaries if disagreement itself signals a career-killing
reluctance to get with the program?

In any case, isn’t “we like being awesome” justification enough?
Apparently not. General Dempsey’s pronouncement set the tone—we’re going
full speed ahead with women in combat. There’s nothing you can do to
stop it and you will only be crushed if you try.

It should come as no surprise then that some Ranger instructors now
say that the first women ever awarded the Ranger tab, Kristen Griest and
Shaye Haver, received plenty of assistance.

… When it was all over, several anonymous
Ranger instructors contacted Congressman Steve Russell (R-OK), a combat
veteran and former Army Ranger, to tell him that they had been pressured
to go easy on the women. They “got special treatment and played by
different rules.”

… This is all par for the course in
Obama’s military. Everything in his administration is make-believe and
everything is subordinated to the agenda, even truth. Especially truth.
Just think of the Solyndra and “shovel ready jobs.”

Congressman Russell has requested to see the women’s training
reports, though I doubt very much that he will find anything there. No
one would be stupid enough to document the women’s failures and then
graduate them. If the course was fixed, so were the records.

… These Ranger instructors cared enough
about the truth to speak out through the only channels available to
them. The real crooks in this sordid tale are the Pentagon brass, the
Secretaries of Defense and the Army, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs,
and the president. They’re the ones who pressured people beneath them to
graduate at least one woman. Am I calling them liars? You betcha! As an
Army veteran myself, I’ll tell you that general officers are very much
political animals. They lie as much or more than politicians and they’re
lying now.